The Identity Reporting Module gives you the ability to generate reports that show information about various aspects of your Identity Manager configuration, including information collected from one or more Identity Vaults or managed systems. The reporting module provides a set of predefined report definitions you can use to generate reports. In addition, it gives you the option to import custom reports defined in a third-party tool.
The Identity Reporting Module requires two new service drivers:
Data Collection Service Driver
Managed System Gateway Driver
For details on the reporting module and on the two reporting drivers, see the Identity Reporting Module Guide. For details on the predefined reports, see Using Identity Manager 4.0.1 Reports.
The following new drivers are included with Identity Manager 4.0.1:
The SharePoint driver for Novell Identity Manager enables user and group membership events to be synchronized between the Identity Vault and a SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010 site collection. A single driver can process these events for a single site collection, which maintains user and group membership information for one or more SharePoint sites. For more information, see the Identity Manager 4.0.1 Driver for SharePoint Implementation Guide.
Identity Manager 4.0.1 offers automatic provisioning and synchronization of users to cloud applications. The new Salesforce.com driver for Novell Identity Manager can seamlessly provision and deprovision users to a Salesforce.com cloud application, which ensures that user identity information is consistent between the Identity Vault and the cloud application. The Salesforce.com driver also supports secure password synchronization between Identity Vault and Salesforce.com cloud and supports an authenticated proxy server and configurable user profile for automatic user provisioning. For more information, see the Identity Manager 4.0.1 Driver for Salesforce.com Implementation Guide.
Identity Manager 4.0.1 supports XDAS-based auditing that augments the auditing capabilities of the Novell Audit Platform Agent. It is uses common XDAS schema for Identity Manager, NMAS, eDirectory and the Role Mapping Administrator. The new auditing service also supports the syslog and file appenders. For more information, see the Identity Reporting Module Guide and the Identity Manager 4.0.1 Reporting Guide for Novell Sentinel.
Identity Manager 4.0.1 introduces packages, which contain high-quality building blocks of Identity Manager policy content. Packages are now used to create drivers instead of using driver configuration files. For more information, see Managing Packages
in the Designer 4.0.1 for Identity Manager 4.0.1 Administration Guide.
The Role Mapping Administrator is a new tool that analyzes the authorizations or permissions that can be grated in your IT systems, and allows you to grant those authorizations or permissions. The authorizations and permissions can be grated by a business analyst, not just IT staff or consultants. For more information, see the Novell Identity Manager Role Mapping Administrator 4.0.1 User Guide.
Analyzer allows you to diagnose, clean, and prepare identity data for management with Identity Manager. For more information, see the Analyzer 4.0.1 for Identity Manager Administration Guide.
Identity Manager 4.0.1 comes with an integrated installer that installs and configures all of the Identity Manager components through one installer. The installer is used for new installations in small to medium environments. For more information, see the Identity Manager 4.0.1 Integrated Installation Guide.